Standard (EADGBE)

Verse 1

A girl cries in the early morning

Woken by the sound of a gun

She knows somewhere somebodys dying

Beneath the rising sun

Outside the window of her cabania

The shadows are full of her fears

She knows her lover is out there somewhere

He's been on the run for a year

Chorus

Oh,the soul of El salvador

Verse 2

Bells ring out on the chapel steeple

A priest prepares to say mass

The sad congregation come tierd and hungry

To pray that the troubles will pass

Meanwhile the sun rises over the dusty streets

Where his body was found

Flies and mosquitoes are drinking from pools of blood

Where the crowd gathers round.

Chorus

out on the ranch the rich mans preparing

to go for his morning ride

they've saddled his horse out in the corral

he walks out full of pride

he looks like a cowboy from one of those pictures

a president made in the past

peasants in rags, they stand back for they know

that enrico gallops fast

Chorus

Over the soul of El Salvador.